Deepak Aravindakshan
Software Engineering Manager at Amazon Web Services (AWS)
Redmond, Washington, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolDeepak Aravindakshan is a results-oriented software engineering manager with 13 years of experience building highly scalable, reliable distributed systems across cloud and developer tooling domains. Currently leading EC2 provisioning teams at AWS after senior engineering roles in EC2 Fleet Maintenance, he combines customer obsession with data-driven decision making to deliver large-scale infrastructure improvements. Earlier at Microsoft he worked across Azure Reserved Instances, Azure Marketplace, and NuGet, contributing meaningful backend fixes and feature work to the widely used NuGetGallery and NuGet.Client projects. He is comfortable shipping at both the systems and developer-experience levels—refactoring service routes, enhancing metrics pipelines, and modernizing client tools and MSBuild integrations. Deepak holds a MS in Computer Science from Colorado State University and a B.Tech from NIT Warangal, and he brings a rare mix of deep platform expertise and hands-on open-source contributions. Colleagues would note his pragmatic engineering style and knack for turning operational complexity into measurable reliability gains.
13 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
Master's degree, Computer Science, Master's degree, Computer Science at Colorado State UniversityB-Tech, Computer Science, B-Tech, Computer Science at National Institute of Technology Warangal
Github Skills (19)
nuget10
package-management10
msbuild10
net10
dotnet10
asp-net-core10
asp-net10
package10
dotnet-core10
package-manager10
csharp10
azure-storage9
apidoc9
api9
dependency-injection8
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
NuGet/NuGet.Client
Dec 2014 - Apr 2016
Client Tools for NuGet - including Visual Studio extensions, command line tools, and msbuild support. (Open issues on https://github.com/nuget/home/issues)
Role in this project:
Backend Developer
Backend DeveloperContributions:563 commits, 102 PRs, 120 pushes in 1 year 3 months
Contributions summary:Deepak's commits indicate a focus on updating and maintaining NuGet client tools, including Visual Studio extensions, command-line tools, and MSBuild support. They addressed issues by updating to the latest package versions, fixing issues in the MSBuildNuGetProject, and refactoring code. Their work involved changes in project files like .csproj files, adding and removing files within the project, and interacting with the NuGet package management system.
dotnetnuget-clpackage-managercommand-line-toolsmsbuild
NuGet/NuGetGallery
Jan 2014 - Nov 2014
NuGet Gallery is a package repository that powers https://www.nuget.org. Use this repo for reporting NuGet.org issues.
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:37 commits, 17 comments, 17 issues in 10 months
Contributions summary:Deepak primarily focused on improving the NuGet Gallery's functionality and maintainability. Their contributions include fixing bugs related to UI elements and adding support for features like a contact email address on the "Contact Us" page. The user also worked on the status service, adding checks for SQL Azure and Storage availability, and refactoring route registration methods to handle feed-only mode and home route configuration. Furthermore, they refactored download statistics updates to use a metrics service and updated the API to support the new service.
dotnetreportingnuget-gallerypowerscsharp
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